'Large' blast at trading estate

A fire has broken out after an explosion at a chemical plant on a Berkshire trading estate.

Police, ambulance and fire crews were called the Slough Trading Estate to a firm which manufactures rubber after reports of a "large explosion".

Thames Valley Police said it was thought to have been a chemical explosion and was not suspicious.

A spokeswoman for South Central Ambulance Service said nobody had been injured in the blast or fire.

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